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Pearl Dawson

Pearl Howard Dawson was a leading figure in the formative years of women’s team sports in New Zealand, particularly hockey, both as a player and administrator.

Distinguished British developmental biologist. Renowned for her work in myogenesis and cardiogenesis, Buckingham’s research focuses on how undifferentiated cells acquire tissue specificity during embryogenesis.

Rosalind Pitt-Rivers

Prominent British biochemist who made groundbreaking contributions to endocrinology

Kono Yasui

Japanese biologist and cytologist (scientist who studies cells) Kono Yasui became the first Japanese woman to receive a doctoral degree in science in 1927.

Isobel Bennett

Australian marine biologist, particularly renowned as a pioneer of coral reef biology.

Agnes Bankier

Australian geneticist

Florence Merriam Bailey

American ornithologist, naturalist, and author

Dr Mary Logan Reddick

African-American neuroembryologist who earned her Ph.D. from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, in 1944.

Dr Esther Lederberg

American microbiologist who made groundbreaking contributions to bacterial genetics, including discovering the λ bacteriophage and the F fertility factor and developing the replica plating technique.